Gauge for and method of waving hair



"L .'Q UINIO GAUGE FOR AND METHOD 0? WAYING aha Jul 18, 1939.

F ned April 27, 1938 2 Sheets-Sheet 1' July 18,1939. QUINIO GAUGE FOR AND METHOD OF WAVING HAIR I med; April 27, 19:58 2 She ets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR Patented July 18, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,166,558 GAUGE FOR. AND METHOD or wAvING HAIR Louis Quinio, Tarentum, Pa. I Application April 27, 1938, Serial No. 204,574 3 Claims. (Cl. lea-1) This invention relates to a device for and method of cutting hair which results in a natural wave as distinguished from Croquignole and other methods of hair waving, and it is among the ob- 5 jects thereof to provide a means of utilizing-to a great extent .the natural waviness of the hair by. cutting away the interfering portions of hair.

Another object of the invention is'the provision of a hair gauge or comb employed to define the 10 wave or series of. waves to be produced by the methodhereinafter described.

vI have discovered that the outer layers of hair of the human head act as a film, which restrains the underlying layers against curling, even where l.) hair has a natural tendency to curl, and by removing the ends of these outer layers of hair, the underlying hair being unrestrained, will respondto its natural tendency to curl.

By the use ofa wave gauge, as will be here- 0 inafter described, the hair may be cut and trimmed to define definite waves, and a series of waves of different lengths, in accordance with the location in which they are produced on the head, and by the hereinbefore stated method of releasing the restraining force on the hair, they will assume a natural contour as guided by the gauge during the process of trimming.

These and other objects of the invention will become more apparent from a consideration of the accompanying drawings constituting a part hereof in which like reference characters designate like parts and in which:

Figs. 1 to 8 inclusive .are diagrammatic views illustrating the steps of my method of producing a scissor-wave, so-called;

Fig. 9 a diagrammatic view illustrating the finished wave; and

Fig. 10 a top plan view of a gauge employed in practicing the method of my invention.

With reference to Fig. 1 of the drawings, the hair is shown bobbed and washed, ready for the scissor-wave operation; 2 illustrates the hair combed out to loosen and untwist the outer and underlying strands of hair; 3 shows a plurality 5 of hair strands taken at the front of the head pped between the fingers of the operator, a

gauge I being applied to the hair to depress the strands and push them forward, resulting in a wave 2, following the contour of that portion of 50 gauge l which is in contact with the hair, the

' portion being designated by the numeral 3, Fig. 10; Fig. 4 illustrates the removal of the ends of the long outer strands 4 of the hair, resulting in all of the strands being of substantially the same 55 length, so that the shorter strands will not be direction of the hair roots.

bound-in or enveloped by the long outer strands, the result being the finished wave 5 shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, and any number of such waves may be placed one behind the other in the form of corrugations, as it were, on one or both sides of the head. Figs. 6 to 8 inclusive illustrate the forming of a scissor-wave by meansof the gauge and shears in the same manner as in Figs. 1 to 5,, but applied to the back of the head of hair. Fig. 6, perhaps better than Fig. 4, illustrates the manner of cutting the hair, which is done by stripping it from the hand, down towards the hair roots, the shear designated by the numeral 6 being pro? vided with serrations 1, Fig. 7, to engage the in dividual strands during the stripping operation until all of the hair is of the length of the ends of the wave. Fig, 8 shows the back wave 8 as extending to the side of the head to give it a windblown efiect. j

The gauge l shown in Fig. 10 is provided with. serrations or teeth 9 and II) for engaging and separating the strands along the contour of the wave edge. As shown in Fig. 10, the contour of the gauge is such as to produce waves of diflferent lengths or widths, such as the wave. A, which, for example, may be a two-inch wave, B a three-inch wave and C a five-inch wave. The gauge may be so marked, although there is no necessity for following these dimensions very accurately. It

may be that in cutting the hair at the backof the I at the'sides a small two-inch or three-inch wave Y may be employed. I

- As previously described in connection with Figs. 3 and 7 of the drawings, the gauge is placed on the combed-out hair and pressed forward in the The hair being moistened by a softening solution will readily take the wave, and the loose strands are'then cut-oft .in accordance with the contour of the wave by the hereinbefore explained scissor-stripping action, to produce the curl or wave in the hair.

This method eliminates the hazards of waving by heat and is productive of a more natural appearing wave than by the Croquignole waving process, which is more of a curl than a wave as produced. by the herein method.

. '0 Although one embodiment of the invention has been herein illustrated anddescribed it will be evident to those skilled in the art that various modifications may be made'in the form ofthe gauge and the steps of the method without 5 wave gauge on top of the hair and pressing it tor-- ward in the direction of the hair roots, selecting the strands of hair as set oil! by the wave gauge. stripping down the selected strands in the direction or the head to remove the outer layers of hair, and rearranging the stripped hair by contact with a selected section of the wave 881186 to form the desired wave.

3. A wave gauge for forming waves in a head of hair comprising a relatively thin flat strip havingits longitudinal edges curved to the general contour of the human head and having teeth 10 formed in the edge thereof.

LOUIS QUINIO. 

